tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654492780115979825.post8848448843676533296..comments2024-03-21T11:04:35.748-04:00Comments on Wargamer's Odds and Ends: Making of a Padre Part 1Chris Stoesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285495844651490795noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654492780115979825.post-65422504093676433882013-05-13T16:49:48.527-04:002013-05-13T16:49:48.527-04:00Yep. Once the Germans began Barbarossa, Il Duce w...Yep. Once the Germans began Barbarossa, Il Duce wanted in on the "easy kill" and dispatched the units he had available. Divisions Torino (motor transportable), Pasubio (motor transportable) and 3rd Duca d'Osta Celere (Cavalry) were sent as the CSIR - Corpo Spedizone In Russia or Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia.<br /><br />On paper, it sounded like Torino and Pasubio were fully motorized. In reality, the motor pools of the division only had the trucks to move half of the Division at a time. In August, General Messe gave all of Tornio's motor transport to Pasubio and by December, Torino had walked over 1400 kilometers across the Ukraine trying to catch up with the Cavalry and Pasubio. The only tanks they sent was 1 battalion of worn out L3/33s that did not make it past October 1941.<br /><br />In 1942, Il Duce upgraded the unit to an army status and added some mountain troops and CSIR became AMIR. By Stalingrad, AMIR was in full flight and running back to Italy. They actually did rather well in the retreat and managed to fight hard enough that they were never surrounded and cut off. Still they lost a huge portion of the men and nearly all their equipment by the time they made it home in 1943. They fared better than the Germans in the retreat ask the Ukrainians loved them and they were welcomed in homes unlike the Germans. Most Italian Russian front vets had had it with the war and joined the partisans or just stayed home after their experiences. Don Traversa Natale was one of many Italians that was captured and one of the few that made it back home after the war. Many of the POWs just disappeared and were never accounted for.Chris Stoesenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285495844651490795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654492780115979825.post-36815932775460402892013-05-13T16:32:55.125-04:002013-05-13T16:32:55.125-04:00Looks great! And the chap your basing the figure o...Looks great! And the chap your basing the figure on sounds very interesting. I'm no WWII expert, and I never knew the Italians were in the Ukraine??Ray Rousellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352596392520905197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654492780115979825.post-3812293032579845162013-05-13T14:24:32.932-04:002013-05-13T14:24:32.932-04:00Here is what I had come up with.
Padre Card
The Pa...Here is what I had come up with.<br />Padre Card<br />The Padre Card functions similarly to a Big Man card. A Padre that is attached to a group can remove a point of shock from a unit each time the Padre Card is drawn. Also if the Padre reaches a Big Man that has been wounded or killed, the Padre can use its activation to reduce the level of wound on the Big Man by one. This can only be done once per Big Man. So a Padre can take a Big Man that was killed and change his status to seriously wounded but cannot through successive activations return that Big Man to normal. Most Western Nations during the war had priests and ministers accompany the front line troops into combat. Their heroism in the face of enemy fire and the services that they rendered the troops is the inspiration for this card.<br />Chris Stoesenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285495844651490795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654492780115979825.post-17189118941475077732013-05-13T14:20:42.521-04:002013-05-13T14:20:42.521-04:00Think about making a "padre" card for th...Think about making a "padre" card for the Italian deck in IABSM. On his activation he may rally a unit if broken or reduce its shock level by 1 or 2 pointsAnibal Invictushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574972963418062956noreply@blogger.com